Sentence examples for had thus won from inspiring English sources

The monarchy had thus won its political victory in Castile only at the cost of letting the nobility contract out of the financial obligations to the state and the empire.

After McDougall walked gingerly off the court, the chair umpire, Fergus Murphy, consulted with the ATP supervisor Tom Barnes and announced that Nalbandian, who had won the first set in a tiebreaker, had been defaulted for unsportsmanlike conduct and that Cilic had thus won the match and the tournament.

It would be as if Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama had not run in 2008, John Edwards had thus won the primaries and then his Rielle affair became public.

Israel's extremists have thus won a signal victory.

Verizon and other broadband providers have thus won a reprieve from the FCC's net-neutrality rules, perhaps forever.

Having thus won a lasting victory for his suzerain, King Anshar, Marduk gave thought to what he might do further.

Having thus won the north of Mexico, Taylor emerged as a hero and began to be seen by Whig politicians as a possible presidential candidate.

A better TABOR, he argues, would have had a rainy-day fund and would have limited spending to 6% of the economy.Mr Owens has thus won quite a lot of support from businesspeople for his referendums.

But it put those curbing the army, including provisions allowing leaders of military coups to be put on trial and allowing the government to appoint constitutional court judges, to a referendum on September 12th this year, which it won by a majority of 58% to 42%.The AK government has thus won most of its battles with the secularist establishment and the army.

Prezi has thus won fans at companies such as Salesforce, Lufthansa, Marriott and IBM.

Dennett claims that compatibilism has thus won the first round: "you agree that I've shifted the burden of proof: there shall be no inferring inevitability in any sense from determinism without mounting a supporting argument" (Dennett 2003, p. 61).